What I found interesting about The Love Guru is that Harry Knowles, who is probably the world's most shameless Internet blurb whore--the man(-thing) who posted a positive review of Van Helsing, for Christ's own sake--had this to say about the fillum presented to you above.

On second look I liked the campy Van Helsing more then most other recent comic book movies like the gawd awfull wretched spiderman offerings

Johnny_Rotten wrote:

On second look I liked the campy Van Helsing more then most other recent comic book movies like the gawd awfull wretched spiderman offerings

The best scene in van helsing is when the horse-drawn carriage jumped the ravine in a total violation of both physics and equine anatomy.  If I had the money to remake that movie I'd do that scene the exact same say, except with all the horses legs shattering on impact, and the carriage then smashing into their screaming, thrashing, be-stumped bodies.

Johnny_Rotten wrote:

On second look I liked the campy Van Helsing more then most other recent comic book movies like the gawd awfull wretched spiderman offerings

There are some bad movies, y'know, you're at home and the teevee's on, you're peeling carrots or whatever, a bad movie starts unreeling on TNT or whatever, you just let it roll, you go on peeling your carrots, and it's just background noise.

But there are some bad movies, the teevee's on, you're doing your thing, and the movie starts, you hear it, you think:  no.  Just...no.  And you go to the trouble of putting down that peeler and drying off your hands and you walk across the house and you change the fucking channel as fast as you can.

Ladies and gentlemen, Van Helsing.

Last edited by George Orr (2008-07-21 17:48:46)